BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS WRITER The Spartanburg Youth Theatre begins its 2017-18 season with a real perky porker in a untangled web of heroics and friendship. That’s right, that original pet pig Wilbur is back with his friend Charlotte the...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC While most school districts have moved up their school calendar to accommodate the epic solar eclipse that will leave a swath of darkness across the Upstate in a couple of weeks, Spartanburg District 6’s theatre...
Hey Woodmont, You’re So Fine You Blow My Mind! Hey Woodmont! BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The cult classic film “Bring It On” with Kirsten Dunst did for millennials what the 1970s Dallas Cowboys pin-up gals and Toni Basil’s infectious...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC What’s not to love about Artios Academies “The Music Man”? Infectious marches, riveting brass orchestrations, barber shop quartets, quirky townspeople, massive musical numbers and a romance all rolled into a feel-good family show with parts...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Oakbrook Preparatory School in Spartanburg has done it again. The youths traipsed across the rooftops of London in “Mary Poppins,” the sea floor in “The Little Mermaid” and now through the swamps of Duloc in...
Mill Town Players, Woodmont High Advance to Regionals in Kentucky BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS WRITER The Mill Town Players in Pelzer and Woodmont High School Wildcat Players in Greenville led an Upstate sweep at this weekend’s South Carolina Theatre Association’s...
